Three-nil down in the arrangement, England found no relief on Boxing Day as David Warner scored an energetic 50 years and Australia traveled through the opening session without losing a wicket. After Steven Smith won the hurl without precedent for a Test since the voyage through India in March, Australia moved along to 0 for 102 at lunch in relative solace, with Warner on 83 and Cameron Bancroft on 19.
It was undeniably a decent hurl to win, for the main thing in the pitch for the bowlers was give up. There was little pace or development, and Warner despatched the ball to all parts of the MCG voluntarily. He was solid when driving through the off side and pulling when the bowlers dropped short, and raised his 50 years from his 64th conveyance with a short-arm pull through midwicket for four off Chris Woakes.
By the end of the session, Warner had struck 11 fours and one six, which was lifted down the ground over long-on off Moeen Ali amid the last finished before lunch. Be that as it may, if Warner was speeding not far off of a pitch at the MCG, Bancroft was by correlation a wary Sunday driver who had overlooked where his quickening agent was. He oversaw just a single limit, an edged cut over slips off the debutant seamer Tom Curran.
Bancroft was plainly attempting to center the ball and looked awkward against the short conveyance, and England's bowlers drudged manfully against him in unhelpful conditions. In any case, Bancroft stayed at the wrinkle before the finish of the session, regardless of whether his 19 runs had taken 74 conveyances.
Maybe the most stressing thing for England was the possibility of what was still to come. The following two men on Australia's batting list have solid late first-innings frame in Boxing Day Tests: Usman Khawaja scored 97 a year ago against Pakistan and 144 the past summer against West Indies, while Smith's previous three first-innings at the MCG have been 192, 134* and 165*.
It could be a difficult day for England.
It's a bad news.........
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